Tina Amorok, PsyD
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Biography
Tina Amorok, PsyD, is a Clinical Psychologist and past Research Psychologist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she co-edited Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine, and is a co-researcher on The Transformations Project an examination of the nature of transformations in consciousness across traditions. She has worked in the mental health field for 8 years in the Bay Area, providing both inpatient and outpatient clinical services in community and private sectors.
Tina has a history of innovation, starting with the development of programs in complementary alternative health and healing at UCLA where she founded and directed the UCLA Holistic Health Association. In addition, she conducted academic research at the UCLA Pain and Stress Management Clinic, and UCLA Perceptual Motor Learning Laboratory. In both the US and Australia, she has led and trained multidisciplinary health teams in delivering holistic treatment modalities in pain & stress management, occupational rehabilitation, and sports medicine. Tina has worked to educate the corporate, university, and lay sectors on self-created wellness in the management of various chronic pain and stress conditions, through research, creation, and delivery of health promotion seminars, publications, and conference presentations.
Before her time at IONS, Tina coordinated a graduate program in Integral Medicine and Health Education at the California Institute of Integral Studies and worked as a change and career consultant to Fortune 100 companies. Her dissertation research, entitled, The Eco-Trauma and Eco-Recovery of Being, examines how alienation from nature results in destructive ecological behaviors, violence, and unhealthy lifestyles.
Research
- Co-Investigator “Consciousness & Healing” 2006
- Principal Investigator “The Transformation Project” 1997
- Principal Investigator “Living Deeply” 1997
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Living Deeply course (class 7 of 8)
Everything is Sacred
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Week 7 of the course Living Deeply: The Art & Science of Transformation in Everyday Life.
This week we explore the realization that in the course of positive consciousness transformation, life becomes filled with meaning and everything becomes sacred. Featured presenter – Tina Amorok, PsyD.
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Living Deeply course (class 6 of 8)
From "I" to "We"
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Week 6 of the course Living Deeply: The Art & Science of Transformation in Everyday Life.
This week moves us into a worldview that nurtures connectedness between ourselves, others, and the world itself, and triggers a natural emergence of compassion. Featured presenter – Tina Amorok, PsyD.
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IONS Research Program: Science of Transformation (sample)
IONS President Marilyn Mandala Schlitz and Research Psychologists Cassandra Vieten and Tina Amorok discuss their systematic investigation of the transformative process.
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"Transformational Life Mapping" with Tina Amorok (part 1 of 4)
Beginning the Map
At the IONS 2007 Conference, "Consciousness in Action," Tina Amorok took the audience through a process called "Mapping Your Own Transformative Life Path." In this first segment Tina guides people in indentifying transformational practices and experiences in their lives, and describes what activities might be considered transformative.
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"Transformational Life Mapping" with Tina Amorok (part 2 of 4)
Contemplation, Reflection & Questing
At the IONS 2007 Conference, "Consciousness in Action," Tina Amorok took the audience through a process called "Mapping Your Own Transformative Life Path." In this second segment Tina gives a brief overview of the two timelines used in the transformational mapping process, and she presents a number of questions to help you explore the relationship between your practices and experiences to gain new insights.
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"Transformational Life Mapping" with Tina Amorok (part 3 of 4)
Purpose
At the IONS 2007 Conference, "Consciousness in Action," Tina Amorok took the audience through a process called "Mapping Your Own Transformative Life Path." In this third segment Tina asks, "Why do this?" She uses quotes from Sharon Salzberg, Wink Franklin and George Leonard as she answers this question.
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"Transformational Life Mapping" with Tina Amorok (part 4 of 4)
Transformational Life Mapping for the Future
At the IONS 2007 Conference, "Consciousness in Action," Tina Amorok took the audience through a process called "Mapping Your Own Transformative Life Path." In this fourth and final segment Tina explains the process of extending the map to the future.
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Living Deeply
The Art & Science of Transformation in Everyday Life
by Tina Amorok, PsyD, Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, and Cassandra Vieten, PhD
Living Deeply is the product of IONS' decade-long investigation into transformations in human consciousness. It brings what we know about achieving personal transformation off the mountain top, down from the ivory tower, out of the laboratory, and into your hands.
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The Eco-Trauma and Eco-Recovery of Being
by Tina Amorok, PsyD
Our loss of deep intimacy with the natural world has had a devastating impact on human flourishing, perpetuating a vicious cycle of personal violence and ecological destruction. Restoring a felt sense of interconnectedness will heal the pain and return us to our intrinsic state of wholeness.
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I to We
The Role of Consciousness Transformation in Compassion and Altruism
by Tina Amorok, PsyD, Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, and Cassandra Vieten, PhD
It is clear that human consciousness can be transformed through spiritual experiences and practices. Little is known, however, about what the predictors, mediators, and outcomes are of such transformations in consciousness. In-depth structured interviews were conducted with forty-seven teachers and scholars from religious and spiritual traditions and modern transformative movements to identify factors common to the transformative process across traditions.
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Consciousness & Healing
Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine
edited by Tina Amorok, PsyD, Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD, and Marilyn Schlitz, PhD
Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine is a collection of 47 essays on integral medicine, consciousness, and healing that integrates mainstream medical knowledge with recent developments in the emerging areas of frontier sciences and insights from alternative healing perspectives.